About PokeDiscover

What it is

Every Pokémon card site assumes you already know what you are looking for. You type a name into a search box and get a price. That is fine if you want a Charizard. It is useless if what you actually want is to find the card you didn’t know existed — the one by an illustrator you have never heard of, in a set that came out while you weren’t collecting.

PokeDiscover is the other thing: a deck of cards you swipe through. Right if you want it, left if you don’t, up if you already own it. The more you swipe the better it reads you, and the cards you keep end up in one list you can actually use.

What’s in it

English cards, refreshed from TCGdex; new sets appear as they release. The discovery deck deals the 5,475 of these with quality scans — holo or better for vintage sets.

How the deck learns

There is no questionnaire and no “pick three things you like” screen. Every swipe updates a set of weights across the things a card actually is: its Pokémon, its illustrator, its set and era, its rarity, its type. A right swipe pushes those up, a left swipe pushes them down, and older swipes fade so a phase you have moved on from stops dominating.

Two rules override the ranking. The deck never shows the same Pokémon more than twice in a row of six, and never the same illustrator three times running — because a confident profile with no guard rails serves forty Charizards, which is a perfectly correct ranking and a terrible deck. A little randomness is mixed in on top so the app keeps showing you things slightly outside what it has already worked out.

When a card carries a reason line, that line is the single strongest thing that put it in front of you. If nothing in your profile explains a card, there is no line — an invented “because you liked…” teaches you to ignore all of them.

About the prices

The deck shows no prices at all. That is deliberate: a number next to every card turns discovery into shopping, and you stop looking at the art. Prices appear once, on the screen you reach after saving a card.

Where a card has printings that genuinely trade at different prices — 1st Edition against Unlimited, holo against reverse holo — they are listed separately rather than blended into one average, and the buy link matches the row you are reading. A single “market price” on a card whose printings differ several-fold is a number that is wrong for everyone.

How it pays for itself

Through affiliate commission on qualifying purchases — eBay Partner Network, and TCGplayer via Impact — and nothing else. No ads, no subscription, no selling data, no paid placement. Commission rates are not an input to the ranking: the deck has no idea which cards or which marketplace pay better, and it is built so it cannot find out.

What it knows about you

Less than you would expect. It works with no account: your taste profile and your saved cards live in your browser, signing in is optional and exists only so your collection follows you to a second device, and there are no third-party analytics or tracking pixels anywhere in the app. The privacy policy spells out every field, and the ⋯ menu deletes the lot without asking anyone.

Credits

Card data and images come from TCGdex, an open card database. PokeDiscover is an independent project with no affiliation to Nintendo, The Pokémon Company or Creatures Inc.